UK Parliament Member Suggests Making Bitcoin a Payment Option for Local Taxation System
By Adrian Zmudzinski A conservative member (MP) of the United Kingdom’s ( U.K. ) Parliament has said that making payments to local authorities and utility providers with Bitcoin ( BTC ) should be possible. The MP’s statements were reported by local news outlet Express.co.uk on Dec. 10. The article notes that Eddie Hughes, a member of the U.K. Parliament for the Walsall North constituency, described himself as a “crypto enthusiast with amateur knowledge.” He notes that blockchain gets a lot of attention and members of the parliament “have a duty to understand it.” Hughes further explained that he recently met with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which accepts cryptocurrency donations, and that the encounter made him think: “What’s to stop us [from] being able to pay council tax and other bills with Bitcoin?” Those declarations come shortly after, as Cointelegraph reported at the end of November, the United States state of Ohio announc...